Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

LaunchDarkly is seeking highly skilled and experienced Backend Engineer with a background in experimentation or data-driven products. You will be joining our team of backend, frontend, and fullstack engineers along with multiple product managers, data scientists, and designers, to build an experimentation product that is both powerful for experienced data scientists and accessible to newcomers. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and performant applications using Go and RESTful APIs. You will play a critical role in delivering high-impact projects, driving technical excellence, and mentoring fellow engineers. You will also be a champion for code quality, observability, and operational excellence.

In Short

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and performant solutions for experimentation and data-driven products.
• Make key architectural decisions considering scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers.
• Drive and enforce code quality standards within the team.
• Enhance code comprehension and reusability across the team.
• Improve the observability and operability of team services and code.
• Work directly with customers and support team to resolve production issues.
• Mentor and guide colleagues, sharing best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends in software development.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building in Go.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of experimentation methodologies.
• Deep understanding of software design principles.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization techniques.
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Mental health benefits in addition to salary.